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Secret bank accounts, income inequality—and why Luxembourg matters. Conservative public policy think tank. Leonard Nimoy’s death in February brought to a close his unusual career continually playing a single role for half a century.

Between 1966, when the television show Star Trek premiered, and 2013, when the movie Star Trek Into Darkness hit the screens, Nimoy portrayed the franchise’s beloved first officer, Mr. Spock, in two TV series and eight films.
Uk.businessinsider. CPoEpvB. Sweden’s feminist foreign minister has dared to tell the truth about Saudi Arabia. What happens now concerns us all » The Spectator. If the cries of ‘Je suis Charlie’ were sincere, the western world would be convulsed with worry and anger about the Wallström affair.

It has all the ingredients for a clash-of-civilisations confrontation. A few weeks ago Margot Wallström, the Swedish foreign minister, denounced the subjugation of women in Saudi Arabia.
London - centric. How to make cheap and healthy dinners. If you’ve ever found yourself buying clothes just because they’re cheap, or if shopping itself has become a form of entertainment for you, I’ve got a proposal: The next time you buy something, spend a whole lot on it.

Enough that it makes you sweat a little.
Google exec: With robots in our brains, we'll be godlike. Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.

I suspect a few of you are looking forward to being robots. Who wouldn't be fascinated by the idea of becoming someone other than themselves? We do get so tired of being the same dull soul every day. What kind of robots will we be?
Why the U.S. Military Isn’t Winning. In Houston's Gifted Program, Critics Say Blacks And Latinos Are Overlooked : NPR Ed. Fernando Aguilar plays with his 8-year-old son Isaac.

He worries that Isaac isn't enrolled in the gifted and talented program in Houston. Laura Isensee/Houston Public Media hide caption itoggle caption Laura Isensee/Houston Public Media. IQ Test Result: Advanced AI Machine Matches Four-Year-Old Child's Score. The rapid advances in information processing technology in recent years have created computing devices with formidable powers.

These machines have long been better than humans at arithmetic, certain games such as chess, and more recently at advanced pattern recognitions tasks such as face recognition.
These Women Claim They've Made An App That Lets You Rate Other People And The Internet Is Furious. Historic Pacific trade deal faces skeptics in U.S. Congress. Quora. Why Is A South Korean Doctor Cloning Dogs?
A surgical team at Sooam Biotech in Seoul, South Korea, injects cloned embryos into the uterus of an anesthetized dog.

Rob Stein/NPR hide caption itoggle caption Rob Stein/NPR A surgical team at Sooam Biotech in Seoul, South Korea, injects cloned embryos into the uterus of an anesthetized dog. Rob Stein/NPR The Sooam Biotech Research Foundation's sleek marble building is on the outskirts of Seoul, South Korea.
History, Travel, Arts, Science, People, Places. Quora. TPP signed: the ‘biggest global threat to the internet’ agreed, as campaigners warn that secret pact could bring huge new restrictions to the internet. An agreement that some campaigners have called the “biggest global threat to the internet” has just been signed, potentially bringing huge new restrictions on what people can do with their computers.

The Trans-Pacific Partnership is the conclusion of five years of negotiations, and will cover 40 per cent of the world’s economy. Its claimed purpose is to create a unified economic bloc so that companies and businesses can trade more easily — but it also puts many of the central principle of the internet in doubt, according to campaigners.

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From ISIS to the Kurds to Erdogan: Why Turkey Is in Serious Trouble. I am usually an optimist when it comes to Turkey’s future.

Indeed, I wrote a whole book about The Rise of Turkey. But these days, I’m worried. The country faces a toxic combination of political polarization, government instability, economic slowdown, and threats of violence—from both inside and outside Turkey—that could soon add up to a catastrophe. The likelihood of that outcome is increasing amid Russia’s bombing raids in Syria in support of its ally, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, which threaten to debilitate the moderate rebels and boost the extremists in Syria’s civil war, while leaving Turkey to deal with two unruly neighbors: Assad and ISIS. Of course, Turkey has gone through periods of political and economic crisis before.
The Money Changes I'd Make if I Were Suddenly Single.

Mass Incarceration and the Uncomfortable Realities of Black Family Life. With the publication of “The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration” Ta-Nehisi Coates has added an elegant and forceful voice to the growing frustration with the inefficacy and injustice of America’s criminal-justice system.

Mandatory-sentencing laws, the War on Drugs, juvenile-justice sentences that seem to do more to create than deter criminals, racial arrest and sentencing disparities: All are ready for a tough national cross-examination. But even in the unlikely event that Washington and state legislatures successfully adapt the nation’s crime policies to a safer, more racially sensitive era, the nation will still look around to find more black men in prison than it might expect or want. There’s a simple reason for that, one that Coates himself notes: Relative to other groups, blacks commit more crimes. To understand why is to tackle some very hard-to-talk-about realities of black family life.
Sweden’s liberal image is a mirage that hides a very ugly problem. Here’s an interesting question: If the world’s economy is filling markets with a pervasive sense of uncertainty, why is the art market picking up steam for yet another season of what would appear to be massive sales?

For the very rich, art is a store of value—which is not a very new idea and one reason that art is often lumped in together with gold as a safe haven from inflation. Gold prices peaked in 2011 and have been on a long slide ever since. Not art. That’s because art is also an object that provides social currency knitting together a select group of global nabobs and those who want to be seen sharing economic and cultural rank with them.
The Meaning Of Work : TED Radio Hour. Fresh Guacamole by PES (Official HD version)
ELI5: What creates that "crunchy" effect on your clothes when you hang them outside to dry? : explainlikeimfive. jWEOlzm. In China, credit score is now affected by friends' activism.

China just introduced a universal credit score, where everybody is measured as a number between 350 and 950. But this credit score isn’t just affected by how well you manage credit – it also reflects how well your political opinions are in line with Chinese official opinions, and whether your friends’ are, too. In the West, the surveillance agencies have been trying to stay as low-key as possible, while listening to everything and anything. China has taken a different approach.
History, Travel, Arts, Science, People, Places. How the Five "Love Languages" Can Help You Win at Relationships.

YYiXfxy. George RR Martin: our long obsession with Mars. Once upon a time there was a planet called Mars, a world of red sands, canals and endless adventure. I remember it well, for I went there often as a child. I come from a blue-collar, working-class background. My family never had much money.
Quora. 19872409373_455341ca3e_b. Children of the Yuan Percent: Everyone Hates China’s Rich Kids. You Really Don’t Need To Work So Much. Recently, the New York Times ran a front-page story about the conditions for white-collar workers at Amazon.
Uk.businessinsider. Strategies: The absolute best way to raise money. nHGGVFL. Pedestrian street crossing lights. Uk.businessinsider. Quora. Panorama experimentation. This time with two right angles.

Pacific Trade Deal Is Good for the U.S. and Obama’s Legacy. After years of talks, the 12 Pacific Rim countries at the bargaining table have announced agreement in principle on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal, which covers countries representing about 40% of global economic output. This is a big win for U.S. negotiators and for the other countries involved. It will also be a crucial part of President Obama’s foreign policy legacy. The deal must now be ratified by legislatures of the 12 countries: the United States, Japan, Canada, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand, Chile, Peru, Malaysia, Vietnam, Singapore, and Brunei.

Quora. Hopes&Fears — Life and culture through a global lens. Six Ways the Media Has Misreported Syria. As in the case of Libya, from NY Times to Fox News, from Guardian to National Post and from Le Monde to Le Figaro, the Western mainstream media’s coverage of the Syrian conflict has been mostly simplistic and black & white with a Hollywoodian good (opposition) and evil (Syrian government) story. The basic storyline reported is: “The dictatorial Syrian government is torturing and killing Syrian protestors and civilians including women and children and that the Western counties and the Arab League want to protect these Syrian civilians”.
Humans are still evolving and we don’t know what will happen next — Hopes&Fears — flow "Science"
Android 6.0 Marshmallow, thoroughly reviewed.

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Imgur. Imaginative and bespoke prosthetics. Move over, Hollywood. We are Roberto Furfaro and Gene Giacomelli, the NASA-funded scientists who built the REAL "The Martian" food-growing system. : IAmA. The ruins of a Roman colony in Africa.
Your Stubbornness Is the Real Reason You Aren't Losing Weight. How a Vaccine Is Like a Banana — and Why That’s Good. FijUtar. How Long It Takes English Speakers to Learn Nine Other Common Languages. Microsoft HoloLens Development Edition: Coming Q1 2016 for $3,000. New study says 30 minutes of exercise a day is not enough. You should double or quadruple that.

How Two Guys Lost God and Found $40 Million. Can We Shape the Robot Revolution?
History, Travel, Arts, Science, People, Places. UN delay could open door to robot wars, say experts. 4DDDq4n. What to Do When Your Friends Make Way More Money Than You Do (Or Vice Versa)
Obama: We Won't Turn Syria Into 'Proxy War' Between U.S. And Russia. Disaster-response drones designed to withstand collisions, not avoid them. Kids With Too Many Duties Grow Up to Be Reluctant Parents. What to Do When You Find Out You’ve Been Cheated On. I came home to this last night. I married the right woman.
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A surprising way to keep your marriage happy: annual performance reviews. Giving Course Credit for MOOCs Is an Important Educational Test for MIT. Power decreases trust in social exchange. 10 breathtaking stained-glass windows. How will school (and everything else) work in the year 2000?
The New York Times - Breaking News, World News & Multimedia. Russia Fires Cruise Missiles Into Syria from 1,000 Miles Away. Bishop escaped abuse charges after MPs and a royal backed him, court told. “243 People Disappeared. Young People. Women. Children. And No One Cares” — Ghost Boat. New Prizes for Expanding Economic Opportunities.

Net neutrality on chopping block as Democrats fight to save FCC’s rules. Poor people are getting terrible investment advice. 33 Activities Under $10 That Will Keep Your Kids Busy All Summer. Zappos is Leading the Way for Bossless Companies. When i am showing to my GF, how to unlock my phone.
Uk.businessinsider. Iran Could Be a Surprising American Ally as Chaos Grows in Syria. 13. You can learn to be creative, if you’re willing to embarrass yourself. Quora.